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Washington, Oct 7: Social networking site Facebook has deleted a post in which US President Donald Trump had claimed Covid-19 was "less lethal" than the flu. He wrote the US had "learned to live with" flu season, "just like we are learning to live with Covid, in most populations far less lethal!!!" Twitter hid the same message behind a warning about "spreading misleading and potentially harmful

The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose for black hole discovery and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering “a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.” It is common for several scientists who worked in related fields to share the prize. Last year's prize went to Canadian-born cosmologist James Peebles for theoretical work about the early moments

Washington, Oct 6: President Donald Trump checked out of the hospital Monday after four days of emergency treatment for Covid-19, pulling off his mask the moment he reached the White House and vowing to quickly get back on the campaign trail. Shortly beforehand, Trump had tweeted that Americans, who have lost nearly 210,000 people to the virus, have nothing to fear. A series of made-for-TV moments

Washington, Oct 5: US President Donald Trump made a surprise drive-past to greet his supporters outside a military hospital where he has been admitted since Friday for the treatment of the deadly coronavirus, drawing criticism from Democrats and a leading medical expert. The brief drive through Rockville Pike in Bethesda, a Maryland suburb of Washington DC, that separates the National Institute of

Stockholm, Oct 5: Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Price for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. The World Health Organization estimates there are over 70 million cases of hepatitis worldwide and 400,000 deaths each year. The disease is chronic and a major cause of liver inflammation

Washington, Oct 4: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 34.7 million, while the deaths have increased to more than 1,031,500, according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Sunday, the total number of cases stood at 34,791,855 and the fatalities rose to 1,031,528, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update. The US is the

Washington, Oct 4: US President Donald Trump who has contracted the COVID-19 released a video on Twitter saying he is feeling better and plans to return to work soon. Trump, sitting at a table with a US flag behind him and wearing a suit but no tie, thanked the doctors and all medical professionals at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland, where he appears to have recorded

Washington, Oct 3: US President Donald Trump is facing difficulty in breathing and is suffering from extreme fatigue, according to CNN. Trump was hospitalised Friday after learning he had coronavirus and experiencing what aides called coughing, congestion and fever. He had made a tweet a few hours ago saying, "Going welI, I think! Thank you to all. LOVE!!! (sic)". Trump was flown to Walter Reed

Washington, Oct 2: US stock futures and Asian shares fell Friday after President Donald Trump said he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the new coronavirus. The future contracts for both the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials lost 1.9 per cent. Oil prices also slipped. Trump tweeted news of his test results just hours after the White House announced that senior aide Hope Hicks had

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have test positive for covid-19. U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for Covid-19. The president said they will begin “quarantine and recovery process immediately." The president was tested after Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides, also tested positive. Hicks traveled with Trump